They sat in the common areas and talked in low voices about the battles they had fought, the friends they had lost, the futures they could not imagine. Some of them laughed, the hollow laughter of people who had forgotten how to be happy. Some of them cried, the silent tears of people who had forgotten how to grieve. Most of them just sat in silence, staring at nothing, waiting for the transport to deliver them to a destination that felt more like a dream than a reality. Kaelen kept to himself. He had spent too long in the network, too long in the Abyss, too long in the company of ghosts to feel comfortable among the living.
